Star Trek fans insist that their favorite show changed the
world. Well... that might be going too far. The first interracial kiss?
That would have been great, except they were under alien mind control.
(So the message was clear: to kiss someone of a different race, you
would need to be out of your mind.) The innovation of a black African
woman as a senior officer? Sure, if you think a glorified telephone
receptionist is groundbreaking. The show that invented the mobile phone
and the microwave oven? Huh? No, that was the work of scientists and
engineers. This was just a TV show.